The Ineffable Power of Humor
My brain got picked, and look what they found! Your. Laughter. Matters!
From the extremely fun website, Pick the Brain:
[Part 2] The Trickster tongue speaks comedy, and Marvel movies increase the dose every year, where comedy ranks second only to the CGI action. Consider Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man quips; Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, the recent Spider-Man films, and most certainly Deadpool movies. Putting the laughs first has made these some of the...
Have a good time. And don’t take anything too seriously… — Jerry Garcia [Part 1] I have a longstanding debate with a close friend over the question Can ANYTHING be made fun of? Is it possible to take NOTHING seriously? Trickster thinks so. And the universe has sent us filmmaker and actor Taika Waititi to...
Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs (1928), as a disfigured young outcast servant whose face is cut into a permanent grin, provided the (visual) inspiration for the iconic Batman villain the Joker Wikipedia Indeed, why? When negotiating a meeting with a group of LGBTQIA+ employees at Netflix over accusations that his Netflix special, The...
